OENOTHERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Oenothera mean? 

• OENOTHERA (noun)
  The noun OENOTHERA has 1 sense:

1. chiefly North American herbs with usually nocturnal flowers

  Familiarity information: OENOTHERA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OENOTHERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chiefly North American herbs with usually nocturnal flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Oenothera; Oenothera

Hypernyms ("Oenothera" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Holonyms ("Oenothera" is a member of...):

evening-primrose family; family Onagraceae; Onagraceae (a large and widely distributed family of plants of the order Myrtales)

 Context examples 

An oil extracted from the seeds of the plant Oenothera biennis, a North American native biennial branching shrub with small yellow flowers.

(Evening Primrose Oil, NCI Thesaurus)